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more generally) comes in at least two different types. The classic appropriate representation benefits members of minority … kind is best known in the field of employment. Another type of appropriate representation grows out of the minority rights … movement. Unlike classic affirmative action programs, this type involves minority communities directly. The minority community …
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The adoption of mildly progressive taxation by the New Zealand government in the early 2000s meant that it became more attractive for parents to channel income to their children via trusts. This development led to the passage of the Taxation (Beneficiary Income of Minors, Services-Related...
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White households are more likely to hold stock investments than minority households. Stock ownership rates of … minority group studied but did not significantly change for White households. Multivariate analyses showed that the predicted … accounted for the decrease in minority rates …
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This Article reports on a mechanism for removing children in conflict with their parents: statutory emancipation, the process by which minors attain legal adulthood before reaching the age of majority. Statutorily emancipated minors can sign binding contracts, own property, keep their earnings,...
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minority. It also expands income inequality within the minority community. This incentivizes decentralized attempts to … expropriate producers which, through cumulative causation, both immiserize and criminalize the minority. An underclass thus … results, with disproportionate minority presence. …
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This paper investigates the net impact of birth control policy in China on educational attainment of the partially excluded ethnic minorities. Exploring county-level variation in the value of fines levied for unsanctioned births, we show that more stringent enforcement of the birth control...
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between either bribing only the majority and accepting the monitoring of the minority, or alternatively, bribing also the … minority, which gives up to its control role and increases the probability of success of the illicit action. Minorities can …
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second step, we relate the sign of the impact of a denomination in a country to whether the denomination is a minority in … that country. We find that denominations that are a minority in a country are more likely to be associated with a higher … of denominations on educational outcomes. The finding of the second step is moreover robust to defining minority …
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Administrative data from a large and diverse community college are used to examine if underrepresented minority … students benefit from taking courses with underrepresented minority instructors. To identify racial interactions we estimate … that the performance gap in terms of class dropout rates and grade performance between white and underrepresented minority …
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